Presumably google is going to block app installation via a google service. If you do not have google services in your phone there’s nothing to block you.

I’m closer to carrying around a cyberdeck than a dumbphone.

I don’t like either sms or phonecalls.

Disengage

To anyone living these kind of fantasy consoles I always recommend TIC-80 as it is a open source alternative. Feature full. And overall more powerful.

No, but it’s not my fault.

Why it have to be responsibility of the people who doesn’t want the “lesser evil”?

Why is not responsibility of the people not wanting “the actual good thing”?

Hurray because I choose to stir towards the good thing instead of one of the evils. People supporting big evil or small evil should be questioned, not me.

I could do it once. When the “lesser evil” decides their whole strategy is being the lesser evil and blackmail me with “if you don’t vote us the big evil will come” then I grow tired and issue a big fuck you to the “lesser evil”.

I loved it for the first 3 seasons. Then they turn it into the usual couples sitcom and lost all its appeal.

I liked the dynamic of having all main characters “fail” in life. Penny failed as an actress, Leonard failed in dating Penny, Howard failed as a playboy, Raj failed talking to women and Sheldon failed at social integration. They were all adorable losers that had fun while losing. For me it kinda was giving a lot of hope, like you don’t have to succeed in life to have a good time.

Then they made them all winners, they all became rich, and achieve all their goals. And all hope was lost. And the message was “you better succeed in life” which was depressing.

If you want it to go unhinged try to get an uncensored llm. Dans PersonalityEngine by bartowski is my current favorite.

Solo roleplay. You can make a character and interact. Generate fake conversations etc.

With generative images you can create custom backgrounds, portraits and landscapes instead of having to lookup for them or doing it yourself.

You can also do some interactive story telling that it’s kind of fun.

Generating quick test questions over a certain topic. It’s another use case I’ve seen it being quite good at.

When this game is released the setting is going to be ancient history.

To be fair it’s about the new UK nanny dictatorship law.

In theory lemmy should do the same and the UK government could sue and block access of any lemmy instance not following their ludicrous laws.

Can you stop insulting people you don’t agree with? Thanks. I’ll do myself a favor and just block you.

https://nypost.com/2024/09/03/business/marketing-firm-spies-on-you-through-your-phones-microphone-report/

This is what I read.

My guess is some android shenanigans. They go to great lengths to track you.

People called me crazy when I said that the phone was listening through the microphone to track your conversations, until they actually admitted they were doing precisely that.

Android may be doing whatever to track you.

Did you notice that lately it’s happen more frequently?

These things happens to me too, and the frequency have measurably increase in this last year.

All the personal attacks were completely out of place. So that person is out of the debate for me.

You were polite so I will answer to you.

First. Pay per access is no-go. Art is publicly release, pay or not pay access for things that are costless to copy is unrestricted. This already happens, piracy exist and cannot made go away. It’s just its legalization.

Second. Once pay per access is abolished. It’s more important to focus in pay for work or pay for release. Focusing more on making the artist a person who is being patronize for doing their art rather than a salesperson.

Once we have this idea of patronizing, instead of private labels we could focus more on cooperative labels, taking out investors and useless middlemen. People could paid for some artist or some label (which will be exclusively conformed by artist) in order for them to keep making their thing. Some labels could be actually public labels, this already exist to some degree when some state pays for art to be made, just expanding it.

Now that we changed the model in a model were people give their money before they get to see the final product we should put some protections in place to avoid scams and then we are golden.

It’s not so complicated really. Many systems already exist. The history is the same as with everything else capitalism and rich capitalists are in a dominant position so they make any change for the better harder.

I think you are arguing against an imaginary group of people here.

So is a world without murder. That doesn’t mean that we should defend murderers doesn’t it?

A world where gay people had equal rights surely was an utopia on the year 1800s, look how far have we come. Thanks to people that though that a better word is, indeed, possible.

Why wouldn’t we strive for a better way of doing things? Why defend faulty systems that we know they are bad just because those are the systems currently in place?

I do believe we can be better.

And if not… Piracy it is.

Any system to evaluate compensation would be better than the actual one, which is a completely mess that does not properly compensate artists for their work.

Currently marketing, frontstore presence and market dominance is far more relevant on a particular artist income than their craft.

Any system that actually would think about what people think about a particular craft, how much time and effort got put into it, how much it was enjoyed, etc, would be better. Currently is just about who can make more sales and get more ad money, the art is secondary and I’m being generous.